Safe screen time, built into TumbleComing soon
Acorn by Tumble.
Watch, learn and play, safely.
One child-safe home on the family tablet and TV for Acorn Original programmes, learning content, games and parental controls for the streaming services your children use. You set it all from your Tumble account.
Free to start. Family plan £29.99 a year, renews automatically, up to 4 children.
Not available yet: the Acorn app for tablets and TVs is being built. The price shown is the real one.
One safe place
Four things, in one app
Acorn isn't just TV. It's our own programmes, learning and games, plus one set of controls for the streaming apps your children already use.
Acorn Originals
Our own calm, gentle shows for little ones. Every episode follows an area of the Early Years Foundation Stage.
Learning content
A little-and-often learning path, plus homework from a tutor, school or you, played as games and marked for you.
Games
Learning games with a daily goal and streaks, and a score for every skill so you can see what's clicking.
Streaming parental controls
Choose which streaming services each child can open, how long for and when. Acorn opens each one in its kids profile.
Why we're building it
Screens arrive early, and every app has its own controls.
88%
of children aged 3–7 go online
65%
of parents of babies aged 6 months–2 say their child goes online
1 hour
a day at most for 2–5s, under UK government guidance
Five apps, five setups
Kids profiles, PINs and limits are set separately in every app.
Built to hold attention
Autoplay and fast-cut content keep children watching, not learning.
Locked to one brand
The best all-in-one controls only work on one company's own tablets.
Cut off from real life
Nothing links what children watch to what they could do this weekend.
Sources: Ofcom, Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes (May 2026); HM Government, Screen time guidance for under 5s (June 2026).
Acorn Originals · every episode follows the EYFS
Our own programmes, one for each area of learning
Calm, gentle shows made by Tumble for children aged 2 to 5, with no fast cuts and no autoplay. Free families get a taste; the Family plan has the full library, ad-free.
EYFS · Understanding the world
Pip Underground
A mole discovers what lives under the garden.
EYFS · Mathematics
Nest Numbers
Three little birds count and share everything.
EYFS · Physical development
Bramble Stomps Out
A hedgehog in wellies gets everyone moving.
Learning content and games
Little and often
- A learning path led by our characters, a few minutes a day.
- A daily goal and streaks so coming back feels like a game.
- A score for every skill so you can see what's clicking and what needs practice.
- Ask Pip an AI helper that gives hints rather than answers. Off until you turn it on.
- SEND-ready with calm mode, subtitles and signing.
Homework
Set by tutors, played as games
- Set by your child's Tumble tutor, their school, or you, in Home & Learning.
- Played in Acorn, with Ask Pip for hints if you've turned it on.
- Marked automatically, with the time taken.
- Seen by you in Tumble, before the next session.
From EYFS counting games through phonics, times tables and spelling to KS3 French vocab, plus practice set by clubs and coaches.
Streaming parental controls
One set of rules, every screen
Set each child's rules once in Tumble. They follow the child from the tablet to the TV, and a change you make reaches the screen in minutes.
A daily time limit
Per child. When it's used up, Acorn says goodnight kindly.
Allowed hours
No screens before school or after bedtime (Family plan).
Content by age
Only age-right shows, opened in each service's kids profile.
Choose the services
Pick which streaming apps each child can open from Acorn.
A locked home screen
The Home button always comes back to Acorn on the family tablet.
History and progress
See what they watched, learnt and played, and how long for.
Services you'll be able to choose from include BBC iPlayer (CBeebies, CBBC), ITVX Kids, Channel 4, Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, YouTube Kids, Apple TV+, NOW / Sky Kids. Acorn opens each one in its own kids profile on your device; it never asks for your passwords. Which services work on day one will be confirmed at launch.
Only on Tumble
Screens that lead back to real life
Watch, then do
Loved the minibeast episode? Tumble shows a forest school nearby, booked in one tap.
Holiday downloads
Going away? Download episodes for the journey, ready for the plane or the car.
Your tutors and coaches
Homework and practice set by the people your children already learn with on Tumble.
Plans
Free to start, Family to keep
Free
£0
- The Acorn home screen and where-to-watch
- One child, with a daily time limit
- A taste of Acorn Originals
- Free downloads for a first trip
Family
Coming soon£29.99 a year
Renews automatically; turn renewal off any time. Everything in Free, plus:
- The full Acorn Originals library, ad-free
- Learning games and tutor homework
- Offline downloads
- Up to four children
- Allowed hours (schedules) for every service
Acorn by Tumble is coming soon
Join the waiting list and we'll email you once, the day it launches. You can set up each child's screen-time rules in Tumble now, ready for the app.